“Bruce” — Image by kenne
“It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”
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Capturing The Moment — Bruce Leave a comment
Nostalgia On My Mind 2 comments
“Nostalgia On My Mind” — Image by kenne
Living in the past
Is not a flash from the past,
That is nostalgia.
Like a Springsteen song
On ordinary people,
Companions in time.
Embracing the past
So to engage the future,
Cross the railroad tracks.
Born in the forties
Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back,
Highway fifty-nine.
Pass on the story
“Deliver me from nowhere,”
Born in the USA.
— kenne
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Mixed Up Spirits In The Moonlight . . . Still Singin’ Our Birthday Songs Leave a comment
“Lovin’ Those Mixed Up Spirits In The Moonlight” — Image by kenne
Mixed Up Spirits In The Moonlight
In all my years of working
I knew there was
more to life
than making money.
It was all about a
“love of life,”
of doing things
with and for others.
The more things I did,
the more I was pulled
in different directions
by obligations,
responsibilities and
desires —
being “mixed up”
was a way of life,
like a spirit in the night.
My experiences
became the ingredients
I gathered in
my love of life —
including the “wild times”
I may have pushed
into life’s backrooms,
and closed the doors.
Often,
music and poetry
have a way of
opening those doors
in the spirit in the night —
like Springsteen’s
“Spirit in the Night:”
“Me and Crazy Janey
was makin’ love
in the dirt singin’
our birthday songs.”
His words bring back
those feelings of
the fire once there.
“Crazy Janey” and her
“Mission Man,”
something right
out of the past —
“She felt so nice,
just as soft as a
spirit in the night (all night).”
. . .still singin’ our birthday songs —
mixed up, mixed up, all mixed up!
kenne
p.s. Being mixed up is good!
Plus, July is a birthday month for a my “crazy Janey” —
still singin’ as long as Bruce plays for us!
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- Why I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen more than 70 times (telegraph.co.uk)
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“This Land Is Your Land, . . .” — Let’s Stop Letting The Best Of Us Slip Away! 5 comments
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument Located on the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona — Image by kenne
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tress passin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY
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- This Land is your land (chloeatcho.wordpress.com)
- Various Artists: Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center (Review) (popmatters.com)
- Pasture Land (kenneturner.com)
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Clarence Clemons, R.I.P. Leave a comment
Video of the Week — Sex Beat Leave a comment
Source: http://www.alejandroescovedo.com/
There is so much about the music of Texas singer/song writer, Alejandro Escovedo, to like; it’s not always easy to get your feelings around it. The easiest way for me is to say, he speaks to me and I hear him. He is a master of his art. In a similar way, Todd V. Wolfson’s video grabs my inter feelings. In some ways it’s like a dream sequence, loaded with the rough disconnect dreams can be with reality. This is a great art video! Take the time (approximately ten minutes) to watch it. It’s cool!
kenne
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“Boss Day” Is Almost Here! Leave a comment
I love this photo of Bruce Springsteen taken in Dallas, 1992. Credit to the blog, 30 Days Out. Check it out.
kenne
